This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Clinical Report of Six Cases / by Heaton, Vincent B. ; Chemistry / by Sheehy, Edward L. ; Dysentery / by Sappington, Richard ; Etiology / by King, John T. ; General Diagnosis / by Pye, Charles H. ; Clinical Report of Cases / by Wilkins, John ; Infection and Epidemics / by Mackall, Louis, Jr. ; Caloric / by Dunn, Thomas H. ; Cancer of the Stomach / by Casper, E. D. W. ; Opium / by Sutton, Richard E. ; Inflammation / by Noble, William D. ; Vis Medicatrix Naturae / by Pettit, A. T. ; Modus Operandi et Therapeutic Uses of Medicines / by Stager, P. R. ; Menstruation / by Weis, Ezra ; Acute Gastritis / by Keith, James B. ; Anatomy, Chemistry and Physiology of Digestion / by Wilson, Henry T. C. ; Pneumonia / by Jones, Charles H. ; Malaria / by Lynch, Francis E. ; Collodion / by Large, Jonathan L. ; Inguinal Hernia / by Chunn, James T. ; Modus Operandi od Medicines / by Flournoy, Peter C. ; Puerperal Peritonitis / by Jones, Samuel J. ; Wounds of the Throat / by Fleming, John P.